Xing, Yang | Department of East Asian Studies

yangxing@arizona.edu

Office

Learning Services Building 102

Office Hours

Fall 2023- Tuesday 3-4pm, online via Zoom (https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89805642727)

Xing, Yang

Graduate Associate

Yang Xing is a Ph.D. student in Chinese Buddhism. He is interested in Buddhist commentary and exegesis in the late imperial period. Yang received his B.A. in Philosophy from Emory University (2017) and M.A. in Religion from Columbia (2020). Besides his research, Yang is a practitioner of Chan Buddhism and Daoism. His teachers include Xie Bo from Hunan and Feng Xuecheng from Sichuan.

Currently Teaching

EAS 201 – Myth, Memory, Mind: Introduction to Traditional East Asia

What would it be like to visit China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula in premodern times? What is East Asian Studies? This course offers an introduction to the histories, cultures, languages and scripts, religions, and literatures of traditional East Asia. It also invites students to participate in the interdisciplinary knowledge production that is East Asian Studies. While we explore what has been historically shared among these East Asian societies, our emphasis is on how East Asia has always been diverse and heterogeneous. We encourage students to debunk the popular myths about East Asia--particularly premodern East Asia--as an exotic and homogeneous place. This will not only inform our understanding of today's East Asia in its historical context, it will also prompt us to actively address the historical legacy of orientalism.

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